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This week Bloomberg Energy issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 4:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to a public records request, a document Gov. Roy Cooper said was an email appears to be something else.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Sen. Harry Brown, R-Onslow, is convinced large wind energy projects, such as the Amazon Wind Farm near Elizabeth City, hinder the military’s ability to conduct low-level flight training missions in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 5:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We can thank North Carolina law — and Gov. Roy Cooper — for the higher bills that come with long-term solar energy contracts Duke has been forced to accept.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 11:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ken Eudy, Gov. Roy Cooper's policy adviser, was the governor's key negotiator with Duke Energy in developing a $57.8 discretionary Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund Duke and its utility partners would pay to Cooper.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House Speaker Tim Moore filed a constitutional amendment requiring photo identification to vote in North Carolina elections
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Passage of House Bill 589 this year brought major changes to energy policy in North Carolina
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 589, passed earlier this year by the General Assembly, could put allies of North Carolina’s renewable energy industry somewhat at ease, said Randy Wheeless, a spokesman for Duke Energy, at a Nov. 1 meeting of renewable advocates
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2017 @ 3:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that North Carolina would join 13 states and Puerto Rico in the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition opposed to President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently enacted North Carolina renewable energy regulations to control costs and help green energy flourish will be a model other states embrace. Or don't
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has signed an energy bill that includes provisions supporting the solar energy industry
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2017 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper today signed House Bill 589, a substantial portion of which is necessary and comprehensive energy legislation that secures a booming North Carolina solar energy industry that leads the nation
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2017 @ 1:43 pm
By: Governor's Office
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House Bill 589, the misnamed Competitive Energy Solutions for NC, is making its way through the North Carolina Senate
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2017 @ 1:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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An amended energy bill is putting supporters of renewable energy at odds with a state Senate leader concerned about the effect of wind farms on military bases
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 589, Competitive Energy Solutions for NC, is anything but competitive or a solution. It is a lobbyists’ dream bill with something for everyone – right down to a set aside for environmental non-profit NCGREENPOWER
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 2:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While the Trump administration opts out of the Paris climate change agreement, North Carolina will opt in, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 11:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on HB 589
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 12:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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A mere 22 days before the start of early voting and with 4 million voter guides in the mail to North Carolina residents, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the state cannot enforce...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Advancement Project, in a press release dated August 21, announced that the North Carolina NAACP was appealing U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder’s decision earlier this month to deny a preliminary injunction to block certain provisions of VIVA in the November 2014 election.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A hearing that liberal groups hoped would undermine North Carolina voting reform instead appears to have revealed their true objectives.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It is telling that when Washington decides to attack North Carolina's new voting reforms, the nation's top legal authority paints a misleading picture of those laws.
Published: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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You've heard it from the Left. You've heard it from the press and on TV. It's all over the Internet. The Voter Suppression Act. Disenfranchised voters. One of the nation's most restrictive voter ID laws. Sweeping. Controversial. Restrictive. Fiercely contested. Assault on democracy.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent modifications to North Carolina's election laws - including changes affecting voter identification, same-day registration, early voting, and absentee ballot applications - would have almost no effect on voter turnout, voting experts say.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the many are trying desperately to convince North Carolinians otherwise, the passage of House Bill 589 is unlikely to have a big effect on voter participation in 2014, 2016, and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Out-of-state college students wishing to vote in North Carolina elections should find it relatively easy to get a state-issued photo identification card that will be necessary to cast a ballot under the new voter ID system.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Please take a moment to tell Governor McCrory that you Support Voter ID and the other election reforms in HB 589 and ask him to sign the bill into law immediately!
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The terms "voter suppression" and "outrageous" were bandied about during the recent debate over North Carolina's voter ID and election law reforms.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, R-Wake, the House speaker pro tem, says a provision passed late in the General Assembly's session - giving lawmakers...
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2013 @ 11:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the dust settles on the landmark 2013 North Carolina legislative session, conservatives can look upon the accomplishments of the state legislature and find much to celebrate.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 8:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A Senate committee Tuesday lumped sweeping election law changes into a House-approved bill that would require voters to produce a photo ID in order to cast a ballot.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate on Wednesday tentatively passed a hugely popular, common-sense provision that requires North Carolinians to show a photo ID when they vote.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2013 @ 12:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate Republicans unveiled a voter ID bill Thursday that resembles a version the House passed earlier this year, with a handful of glaring differences.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2013 @ 10:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of the House Elections Committee Wednesday received two starkly different versions of the effects of having a voter ID law.
Published: Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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